How much does Wallace H Jerome Foundation give?

Wallace H Jerome Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $29,712 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wallace H Jerome Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (57%), Environment (7%), Public Safety & Disaster (7%).

Who are Wallace H Jerome Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Red Cedar Church ($100k), Barron Area Community Center ($19k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($19k).

Does Wallace H Jerome Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wallace H Jerome Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wallace H Jerome Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Xcel Energy Foundation, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Brown Family Foundation Inc.

Where is Wallace H Jerome Foundation based?

Wallace H Jerome Foundation is based in WI.

Wallace H Jerome Foundation

Wallace H Jerome Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Wallace H Jerome Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$12k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$210kEnvironment$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kHuman Services$23kYouth Development$20kRecreation & Sports$14kPublic Benefit$9kAnimals$8kOther$0

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k28 grants · $18k
$10k–50k1 grant · $12k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$185k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH	$12,000
BARRON CHETEK YOUTH HOCKEY	$3,500
BEAVER DAM LAKE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION	$2,000
BADGER BOYS STATE	$1,200
MISSOURI PRAIRIE FOUNDATION	$1,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA	$1,000
BARRON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER	$1,000
MISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$500
TURNING POINT USA	$500
BENJAMIN'S HOUSE	$500
4-H	$500
SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION	$500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$500
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$500
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$245k · 34 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$245k

$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

Still filing today

71%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

BA
BARRON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +1%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
6× · 2017–2023 · $19k · revenue +46%
MP
Missouri Prairie Foundation
9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +177%

Funded once

RC
RED CEDAR CHURCH
one grant, 2018 · $100k
ES
EMERGENCY SERVICES OF BARRON COUNTY INC
one grant, 2018 · $5k
CO
CASA OF WESTERN WISCONSIN
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Conservation Minnesota

Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.

Environment

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

Landmark Conservancy Inc

Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.

Environment

American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…

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Natural Resources Foundation of

To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.

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Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit

Cooperative Network

Promote, represent & advocate for the cooperative way of doing business

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Minnesota State Fair Foundation

The minnesota state fair foundation's mission is to preserve and improve the historic minnesota state fairgrounds and support state fair programs and projects in agriculture, arts & culture, education, the environment, and history.

Philanthropy

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc

The mission of the rocky mountain elk foundation (rmef) is to ensure the future of elk, other wildlife, their habitat and our hunting heritage. our mission includes four core programs; land protection and access, hunting heritage, habitat…

Animals

The Minnesota Camp Fire Foundation

Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.

Youth Development

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Margarets Project Santa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

22/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$278,711Human Services$39,250Environment$21,750Youth Development$11,900Animals$7,500Health$3,650Education$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Xcel Energy FoundationMN15.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Brown Family Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wallace H Jerome Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wallace H Jerome Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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